Sharing from Windows Vista Business
Hi All. This is a strange one!! Vista Business SP 2 in a workgroup Windows XP SP 3 In the same workgroup Shared Folder (Which is on the vista machine) Perms: Everyone - Contribute Guest - Contribute And a few other explicit allow perms, but not relevant. The XP machine can browse to the share, and can see 85% of the folders within the share (all of which have default security perms), but for some reason it CANNOT see 15% of the folder. If i manually go to that folder by typing the folder name into the share path, then i can get to it, so i would assume its not a permission issue, as it is accessible! We just cant see it!!! Check lots of things (some which we are sure are not relevant but no harm anyway) Disabled simple file sharing on the XP Machine Mapped the network drive but still had the same problem Browse to the share using Run \\share-pc\sharename\folder name but still only see the same 85% of folders. Disabled all Anti Virus/Firewall Software Made sure sharing is enabled in the control panel of the Vista Machine Check DNS is using the local router as DNS Made Sure offline File's are disabled on the Windows XP Machine I am very confused! Any help on this appreciated! If i have missed anything or you would like more info please don't hesitate to ask!!! Thanks in advance! Ben Ben Weinberg Prime-Networks www.prime-networks.co.uk Please post the resolution to your issue so that everyone can benefit Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
May 27th, 2011 11:47am

Just to be really clear as i am not sure i was in the above post. Folder A is shared on the Vista Business Machine. Within Folder A is Folder B, Folder C, Folder D, Folder E, Folder F The XP Machine can browse to and locate "\\vista-business\Folder A" The XP Machine can see within this folder Folder B, Folder C The XP Machine CANNOT see Folder D, Folder E or Folder F Browsing manually to "\\vista-business\Folder A\Folder D" works fine! Hope thats a little clearer!Ben Weinberg Prime-Networks www.prime-networks.co.uk Please post the resolution to your issue so that everyone can benefit Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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May 27th, 2011 11:52am

Hi, Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet forums. Can you reproduce this issue by create an identical Folder B with the same subfolders and in a different partition? Will a restart help? Please go to Organize->Folder and search options->under View tab, check the box before Show hidden files, folders, and drives. Or simply reset Folders to check the result. If the issue persists, it is suggest to prepare clean boot and check if it is certain third party software that causes conflict. Please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796 Best Regards Magon Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum. If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
May 30th, 2011 2:44am

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June 2nd, 2011 2:49am

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